[theora-dev] How to get the duration of a file or track?

[Ken Larson]

Ralph -

Thanks, that will come in handy, because I do eventually need to try to 
determine duration of individual frames.

Actually, I phrased my question badly though:  What I originally wanted 
to know was how to find the total duration of the movie.

Thanks,

Ken

Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 07:13:17AM -0400, Ken Larson wrote:
>
>   
>> I'm starting with the theora player_example.c.  I want to be able to 
>> determine the duration of the audio/video ahead of time, to be able to 
>> display it somewhere.
>>
>> I can't see anything obvious in ogg.h, theora.h, or vorbis.h for this.
>>     
>
> It's a little complicated. First you bisection-search based on the ogg 
> page serial numbers to find all the chain segments. Then you read the 
> bos pages for each chain segment to identify the codecs and get their 
> granulepos mappings. Then you read the first and last data packets for 
> each stream in each chain segment and use those to calculate the 
> duration of each segment. The length of the ogg stream is the sum of the 
> durations of each segment.
>
>   
>> Can anyone help me with the right place to look to do this?
>>     
>
> You might take a look at liboggplay; it's a convenience library that 
> does this for general streams, as well as general playback marshalling. 
>
>   http://svn.annodex.net/liboggplay/trunk/include/oggplay/oggplay.h
>
> HTH,
>  -r
>
>   
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